Search for dissertations about: "definiteness"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the word definiteness.
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1. Learning of Definiteness by Belarusian Students of Swedish as a Foreign Language : Inlärning av bestämdhet hos svenskstuderande i Belarus
Abstract : Through a series of studies, this thesis investigates the learning of definiteness in Russian-speaking students of Swedish. A communicative, oral-production task elicited modified and non-modified noun phrases in indefinite and definite contexts. READ MORE
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2. Learning of definiteness in Belarusian students of Swedish as a foreign language
Abstract : Through a series of studies, this thesis investigates the learning of definiteness in Russian-speaking students of Swedish. A communicative oral-production task elicited modified and non-modified noun phrases in indefinite and definite contexts. READ MORE
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3. Transitivity in discourse : A comparison of Greek, Polish and Swedish
Abstract : This work assumes that various linguistic forms in different languages are related to common cognitive functions and semantic properties. A cognitive function - presumably universal - is information transmission. READ MORE
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4. One of a kind. The processing of indefinite one-anaphora in spoken Danish
Abstract : It is a hallmark of natural language use that the way we talk about something reflects how it is represented in the mind of our conversation partner. This thesis studies the use and cognitive processing of referring expressions like one in comparison with other expression types in spoken Danish. READ MORE
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5. Text Harmonization Strategies for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
Abstract : In this thesis I aim to improve phrase-based statistical machine translation (PBSMT) in a number of ways by the use of text harmonization strategies. PBSMT systems are built by training statistical models on large corpora of human translations. This architecture generally performs well for languages with similar structure. READ MORE